Post on 27-Mar-2018
Reshoring Initiative-
Bringing Manufacturing Back Home
Harry Moser
President
Reshoring Initiative VMA
To Offshore or Reshore: How to Objectively Decide
Suggested priorities re reshoring
1. Keep existing domestic sources
2. Shift outsourcing back
3. Repurpose offshore own-facility to serve the offshore
market. Incrementally invest domestically to serve domestic
market
4. Shut offshore own facility. Build new domestic facility.
Definitions
Reshoring/Backshoring/Onshoring/Insourcing:
Bringing back manufacture of products that will
be sold or assembled here.
Transplants: Similar motivation/economics
Producing near the consumer!
Geographic sourcing alternatives
The concept also works in other countries
Offshoring: partially herd behavior
A ‘herd’ mentality to participate in the ‘Chinese miracle’ developed among global giant corporations --{Peter Nolan; University of Cambridge; - 9/03
“There is a herd mentality with OEMs in China —sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn’t—not always rational decision…
People tell their bosses what they want to hear—(going to China) gives a boost to the stock valuation, but you really have to do the analysis on a case by case basis.” {Technology Forecasters 10/03
Source: Stone & Associates
Flawed company economic model
60% of manufacturers:
Apply “rudimentary” total cost models
Ignore 20% or more of the total cost of
offshored products
Source: Archstone Consulting survey, American Machinist Mag., 7/16/09
Offshoring impacts innovation
“exporting manufacturing has a negative impact on the
country's industrial commons, which represents the collective
capability to sustain innovation.”
Professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih
Harvard Business School
“Manufacturing Is Expected to Return to America”
“Renaissance in Manufacturing”
“We expect net labor costs for
manufacturing in China and the U.S. to
converge by around 2015” “take a hard look at the total costs”
Source: Boston Consulting Group press release 5/11 & 4/12
Source: Michelle D. Loyalka, 2/17/12 NYT
Chinese no longer ”just thankful not to go hungry.”
The Industry-Led Initiative Provides
Free Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Software for companies and suppliers
Online Library of 300+ reshoring articles
Case Study template for posting cases.
Media coverage of the trend: WSJ, Fox Business, USA Today, IW, CBS, CNBC, etc.
~100 presentations/year nationwide
Motivation for skilled manufacturing careers
Solutions to major supply chain problems
TCO Estimator benefits
Provides a single TCO for each source
Flexible: values are 100% user selected.
Broad: 29 cost factors.
Via pull down menus you automatically insert:
Freight rates for 17 countries
Duty rates for parts or tools, e.g. molds
Current value and 5 year forecast of TCO.
Easy to use: Explanations and references to help select values.
Free
TCO Example: a Part
Chinese unit price $70
U.S. unit price $100
# units/year 12,000
unit weight, lbs 2
Shipments/year 6
product life, yrs 5
Packaging* 1%
Payment on shipment
Yes
Quality* 2%
* Chinese differential vs. U.S.
Product liability risk* 0.5%
IP risk* 1.9%
Innovation* 0.5%
Trips/yr 2
Carrying cost, rate 22%
Emergency air freight %* 5%
Wage inflation, annual* 8%
Currency appreciation, annual* 5%
TCO Comparison Example
Cumulative Cost by Category
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Just using TCO could bring back 25% of offshoring
Comparison
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Price 189% 5%
TCO 100.4% 53%*
Difference 88.6% 48%**
* For the 53%, the average U.S. TCO was 36% below China
**Conservatively 25% might return
Source: TCO user database 19 “real” 2012 cases China vs. U.S.
Deming on Total Cost
“End the practice of awarding business on the basis of
price tag. Instead, minimize total cost.”
Source: “4th Key Principle for Management,” Out of the
Crisis, W. Edwards Deming
Water-heaters
Bringing Production back from China: Water-heater production
Unionized facility in Louisville, KY
400 jobs, renovated facility
Reasons:
Tax incentives
High-tech new model
Ease of design collaboration with workers: cut cost $20
2 tier contract
Chinese cost: -30% becomes +6% considering inventory and delivery problems
Will move a “significant piece” of appliance production back
Bailey Hydropower Hydraulic cylinders
Had 100,000 ft² in Chennai, India
Reshored to Westknoxville, TN
60,000 sq. ft.
Reasons:
Fast delivery vs. 5 wks on the water
Fewer supply chain problems
If a quality problem, no more bad units
en-route
Source: Knoxvillebiz.com Ed Marcum 8/7/10
Hydraulic die cutting presses
o From Taiwan to Cincinnati, OH
o Ability to Control Own Destiny
o Warranty Reduced by 90% on Custom Presses
o Improved Speed to Market – at Least 30 days
o Thus Far Created 17 Jobs
Builds Employee Skills & Morale
Restoring Long-Term “Made in USA” Heritage for Schwabe
Presses
Hydraulic excavators
Will triple domestic production to supply N. America
Shift from IL and Japan to Victoria, TX
New plant
600,000 sq. ft.
500 employees
Akashi, Japan still supplies Asia
Source: WSJ 3/12/10 Caterpillar Joins 'Onshoring' Trend
Buttons
China to Clarkesville, GA
Reasons:
Salaries up
Expectations up
Rising Yuan
20-25% of employees did not return from annual holiday
Women’s Apparel
China to Los Angeles, CA
Reasons:
Quality control
Rising labor and duty
costs in China
Nimble companies are better
able to capitalize on a trend
More sophisticated manufacturing techniques
means production is no longer prohibitively
expensive
Circuit boards
Woodridge, IL
Supplies many AEM members
Had quality issue with a Chinese component
Found local IL source
Result: Quality problem fixed
Inventory cut by 94%
Reshoring is happening!
61% of larger companies surveyed “are considering
bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.” (MIT forum for
Supply Chain Innovation 1Q12)
40% of contract manufacturers have done reshoring
work this year (MFG.com 4/12)
% of U.S. consumers who view products Made in
America very favorably: 78% (2012) up from 58%
(2010) (AAM June 28-July 2, 2012)
50,000 Manufacturing Jobs
since Jan 2010!
Reshoring yielded:
About 50,000 manufacturing jobs*
~ 10% of manufacturing job growth since the Jan. 2010 low
~ 100,000 total, including multiplier effect
* Source of estimate: Reshoring Initiative tabulation of jobs listed in 287
Reshoring Library articles, 85% published since Jan 2010
Industries of published cases
Industry Number Elec. equip, appliances &
components 37
Miscellaneous 33
Transportation equipment 27
Machinery 18
Furniture 11
Computer and electronics 9
Plastics and rubber 8
Fabricated metal parts 6
Clothing and textiles 3
Food and beverage 3
Chemicals 1
Primary metal 1
Oil & gas 1
SSource: Reshoring Library, July 2012
Source: Reshoring Library, July 2012
U.S. Manufacturing
Competitiveness for Exports
Paper
Electrical Eqpmt
Computer Eqpmt
Fabricated Metal
Pharma.
Appliances
Electronics
Primary Metal
Auto Veh. Parts
Food
Machinery
Medical Eqpmt. Other Transp. Eqpmt.
Bev. & Tobacco
Aerospace
Chemicals
-10%
-15%
-20%
-25%
-30%
-35%
-40%
-45%
Petro/Coal
-55%
-60%
-65%
-70%
Semiconductors
Textile Product Mills
Furniture
Leather
-50%
Nonmetallic Mineral Product
Wood Product
Textile Mills
Apparel Plastics
Auto Final Assm.
290%
-5%
Printing
0%
Circle size = U.S.
consumption Global Leaders
U.S. Manufacturing Positional Advantage for Export High
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1) The U.S. cost advantage represents the labor and logistics costs compared with those of Chinese manufacturers, for products consumed by people in China.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, UBS Research, CapitalIQ, Energy Information Administration, World Bank, Eurostat, World Trade Organization,
IRS Statistics, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Booz & Company
U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness in
Domestic Markets
-60%
-70%
Semiconductors
Textile Product Mills
Furniture
Leather
Printing
Nonmetallic Mineral Product
Textile Mills
Apparel
Plastics
300%
200%
90%
80%
Paper
Electrical Eqpmt.
Computer Eqpmt.
Fabricated Metal
Pharma.
Appliances
Electronics
Primary Metal
*
Auto Final Assm.
Bev. & Tobacco
Other Transp. Eqpmt.
Wood Product 70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
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-10%
-20%
-30%
-40%
-50%
Medical Eqpmt.
Machinery
Food
Petro/Coal
Chemicals
Aerospace
1) The U.S. cost advantage represents the labor and logistics costs compared with those of Chinese manufacturers, for products consumed by people in the United
States.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, UBS Research, CapitalIQ, Energy Information Administration, World Bank, Eurostat, World Trade
Organization, IRS Statistics, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Booz & Company
U.S. Manufacturing Positional Advantage for U.S. Demand High Low
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Sectors on the Edge
Niche Players
Regional Powers
Circle size = U.S.
consumption Global Leaders
Reasons for reported cases
REASON # of CASES CITED Wage and Currency Changes 54
Quality, Warranty, Rework 41 Delivery 38
Freight Cost 32 Travel Cost/Time or Local Onsite 27
Inventory 25 Total Cost 20
Communications 14 Image/Brand (prefer U.S.) 12
Loss of Customer Responsiveness 9
Emergency Airfreight 9 Difficulty of Innovation/Product Differentiation 6
Natural Disaster Risk 4 Price 4
Green Considerations 4 Burden on Staff 3
Product Liability 2 Personnel Risk 1
Regulatory Compliance 1
Source: Reshoring Library 9/12
64% of reshoring cases are from China
Country from which
reshored
Number
China 79
Mexico 18
Japan 10
India 6
Taiwan 5
Philippines 3
Canada, Germany, Malaysia 2
Brazil, El Salvador, Indonesia,
Singapore, UK
1
Source: Reshoring Library 9/8/12
Special Relevance to Quality,
Competitiveness and workforce By understanding the small TCO gap instead of the large
price gap:
You can justify domestic process improvement, automation, training,
etc.
You do not have to sacrifice quality to seek offshore price.
Recruiting is enhanced as reshoring becomes more visible
But how do apprenticeships and credentials pay?
Potential for reshored jobs is huge!
(Scenario) Manufacturing
Jobs*
Total
Jobs**
Today: If all companies used
TCO (Reshoring Initiative)
~500,000 1,000,000
By 2015: If Chinese wage
trends continue (~BCG)
1,000,000 2,000,000
Better U.S. training, process
improvement, automation,
tax rates (~AMP)
2,000,000 4,000,000
End of offshore currency
manipulation
3,000,000 6,000,000
* # of jobs is cumulative. ** Assumes a low 1.0 Multiplier Effect.
The fastest and most efficient way to
strengthen the U.S. economy
●Reshoring breaks out of: The economic zero-sum-game of tax/borrow and spend.
The increases in consumer prices of relying solely on currency changes.
The waiting-for-policy-decisions problem.
● Assures that the pie grows, to the advantage of all Americans.
● Grows the pie by taking back what we earlier lost.
● Focuses on the manufacturing sector which has suffered so many job losses for decades.
● More efficient than exporting, stimulus programs or tax reductions.
Gaining support in Washington, DC
Commerce Dept: 2012 budget specifies TCO.
Links now: www.manufacturing.gov
http://nist.gov/mep/reshoring.cfm
Major link on SelectUSA due 9/20/12
3 rounds of MEP webinars
Testified at CJS Congressional hearing on 3/28/12
Calls from: United States-China Economic and Security Review
Commission
White House National Economic Council
1/11/12 Insourcing Forum
1/11/12 Insourcing Panel
But how do apprenticeships and credentials pay?
What can you do?
Use the tools. Free at www.reshorenow.org
Use our archived webinars to inform staff and customers
Work with groups that are being trained on TCO: Economic development agencies/Select USA
MEPs (part of Commerce)
Prepare the workforce that attracts reshoring
Post a link like http://www.pres-flex.com/american-made/
Call on me to speak at: open houses, webinars, sales and supply chain training sessions
Submit cases of reshoring for publication and posting using our template. Add visibility to your company and industry
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Suggested priorities re reshoring
1. Keep existing domestic sources
2. Shift outsourcing back
3. Repurpose offshore own-facility to serve the offshore
market. Incrementally invest domestically to serve domestic
market
4. Shut offshore own facility. Build new domestic facility.
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Contact:
Harry Moser
Initiative Founder
847-726-2975
harry.moser@reshorenow.org
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